World: Chinese Incident

In a deep gorge on the upper Salween, foot-weary, battle-battered
Chinese troops were finally backed up against the bridge, retreated
across it while the Japs from the other side rained down fire on them.
The Chinese left their dead behind them, blew up the bridge, and
crawled up the winding road to the heights on the China side. Across
from them the Jap's guns bayed at the scent of tired game.

The Chinese had been beaten and battered beyond human endurance. One
of them broke. Before his troops a general killed himself. The men...